Monthly Archives: December 2013

Every person has a muse. For some, it is the love of their life. For others, it is aspiring to greater heights. The muse takes many forms and always alters the consciousness of the receiver.

I once heard an interview with Graham Hancock where he admitted using various drugs when he was writing his books. During a trip to the South American rainforest, he used ayawaska and had a different revelation. Not only was an idea for a new novel given to him, he was told he had to do it sober. Yes, quite an interesting turn of events.

I’m not Graham. And I’m not totally sober.

In the past, great emotion put me into a state of poetic verse. In those days it was usually the love, or love lost, of a woman. Somewhere there is a notebook full of poems dedicated to a true love. I’m sure most of it is bad teenage poetry, maybe someday I’ll find it. Maybe I should toss it. Who knows.

Tonight while listening to an interview with Olivia Stefanino being conducted by Lilou Mace, I heard something fantastic. Sure, the subject of the interview was about being your own guru and much of it dealt with believing in yourself and understanding you have within you what you require to be great, but one thing in particular stuck with me in my altered state inspired by Rogue’s Dad’s Little Helper: start from here.

Each of us is in a place we want to move from. Each of us feels there is far more to life than what we are currently experiencing. Some tend to dwell too much in how we got here and why and who is to blame. Forget it. Learn from the past, but do not live there. Start from here. Start from where you are right now and more toward what you really want. For some, it will require setting and meeting goals. For all, it requires aligning your actions for what your really, really want. Stop living the dream of someone else. Find your own and live it fully.

In my current round of workouts has my triceps getting hit on two different cycles: on chest day and on arm day. When these days fall one after the other without more than 24 hours of rest, the triceps fail fast and the biceps get bored. Today was such a day.

The chest routine performed yesterday has the following exercises for the triceps at as the last two:

Pushdowns 3×10, 8, 6

Weighted Dips 3×6-8

Doesn’t seem like much, but coming after flat bench presses, inclined presses, pec-deck, standing military press, upright barbell rows and barbell shrugs, it doesn’t take much to finish off the triceps.

And now, here’s arm day.

The exercises for arm day are meant to compliment the rest of the week. They are here to finish off and stimulate more directly the triceps and biceps. Sometimes the forearms are coaxed to come out and play. Some sets are done in a 1 second positive, 3 second negative cadence. Others are in a more conventional 1 second, 1.5-2 second. After warmup and stretching, the routine is this.

Triceps

Bar pushdowns 3×30, 20, 15

One-arm dumbbell extensions 3×30, 20, 15

Rope pushdowns 3×30, 20, 15

Biceps

Dumbbell Hammer Curl 2×10, 12

Rope Hammer Curl 3×30, 20, 15

Dumbbell Curl 1×15-20

Preacher Curl 1×8-10, 8, 8

There you go. That looks good, doesn’t it? The triceps, being tired from yesterday, didn’t take much to reach lactic acid buildup and fail. Ok, bicep time. Warm up. Stretch. Go. The rope hammer curls were hard. Had to pause a few seconds to get to 30 and 20 reps. Perhaps the 45 pounds is too much. Keep pushing.

Preacher curls are odd for me. With my long arms and short muscle bellies, I have a great deal of bone with no support. The weights are way out there on the lever and the bar plus a total of 30 pounds is more than enough. I squeezed out each rep required. Cool. Done.

But wait. My biceps are not burning. They are not cramped like my tris. They are also not getting hit directly on other days, so they need a burn out set. What to add? What to use as a speed set to really work the biceps and finish them off for the day?

Ah, the bicep curl machine. Yes! I sat down and did two sets of 15 reps, 1.5 seconds for each rep at 40 pounds, keeping form good. Just because a set is done at speed doesn’t mean the form is allowed to be sloppy.

The result? Holy cow, yes! This exercise has been added as the last one for the arms. Can’t wait for next time.

It can no longer be denied. There is something about Sarah Elizabeth Cupp that I cannot resist. Her face. Her voice. Her mouth. Her legs. All of it. S.E. Cupp is just too much for my sexually charged brain can handle.

I first saw S.E. Cupp in video clips on The Blaze talking to Glenn Beck. A quite video search shows her on various shows on networks like CNN and Fox News. She is gorgeous on all. Yes, she is an atheist, but she is also Libertarian. Oh my. Have to do some more searches.

Google will be quick to autofill the search field for S.E. Cupp with hot, Maxim and legs. Oh yes. The legs. Pictures show her shorter than people. She must be short. Oh wait…no. 5’11”? Really!?! Perfect.

She’s been on Glenn’s TV show. She’s been on Duck Dynasty. She seems to be everywhere. What is the complete attraction? It is those glasses and my dirty mind racing.

Among all the sexually charged love for S.E. Cupp, there are also detractors. The so-called Liberal women hate her as she is a beautiful woman who has her own opinions and voices them. Doesn’t she know how much her sisters before her have sacrificed? Doesn’t she know they don’t like it when beautiful women use her beauty to get what they want? Doesn’t she know? Does she really need to have her legs on the desk? Does she really need to flirt with the camera? Message lost.

On the other side are religious Conservatives who cannot get past her non-belief. Sure, many of them will comment that S.E. Cupp is beautiful and that many of her political beliefs they share, but they cannot get past her atheism. Oh if she would just come to Jesus, they contend, she would be perfect.

Forget it all. Sure. I don’t always agree with S.E. Cupp, but I don’t really care. She is gorgeous. She is a free thinker. She is sexy. She isn’t a man hater. S.E. Cupp is just plain hot. Hot in all meanings. Hot. Hot. Hot.